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Inflation: Comparing Trump and Biden...

Democrats hope to press the "affordability" issue in this year's midterm election season, but there's one potentially glaring problem for them, as illustrated by our friends at Unleash Prosperity... Biden Versus Trump on Inflation

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Federal Workforce Savings Made Easy
By Quin Hillyer
Thursday, October 27 2011
No good reason exists, none whatsoever, for Congress’ budgetary “supercommittee” to fail to identify at least $1.2 trillion in ten-year cuts without raising taxes. Wisconsin’s freshman Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson alone has recommended ways to save $1.4 trillion over ten years just by more sensible management of the federal workforce. Almost all of Sen. Johnson’s recommendations are eminently reasonable. Johnson’s plan contains 58 separate proposals for savings. Let’s just take the 12 easiest to understand. For instance: Cut the federal workforce…
 
Blow up the Boxes: GOP Presidential Candidates are Getting Bold on Tax Reform
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While Federal Spending Hit New Record in 2011, Washington, D.C. Became America’s Wealthiest City
Here’s an irony.  How is it that the only location in America immune from belt-tightening…
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Obama’s 5 (Most Recent) Dumb Statements
For a president allegedly as eloquent as Barack Obama, it’s amazing to hear the nonsense that escapes…
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Obama’s “Occupy Wall Street” Problem: He Is the One Percent
The American people – always astute given a long enough time horizon – seem to have determined…
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Bama Boosts Borders: The Immigration Controversy
Note: I host a weekly radio show on Thursday nights on WAVH-FM in Mobile, AL. Last week’s topic…
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Herman Cain’s vaunted 9-9-9 tax proposal is brilliant in theory, and in a political vacuum. In…
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“Occupy Wall Street” – Silly Circus, or Portent of a More Violent 2012?
“You’re going to find yourself in a country where you and your wealthy friends are going…
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Notable Quote   
 
"Democrats swept elections coast to coast on Tuesday night and seized control of Congress and prized statehouses in the deep red South, as Americans punished Republicans for failing to finish the job of taming inflation and fixing an economy about to be transformed by artificial intelligence.Hispanic, young and independent voters who powered Donald Trump's improbable comeback in 2024 markedly…[more]
 
 
— John Solomon, Chief Executive Officer and Editor in Chief of Just the News
 
Liberty Poll   

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